A man who was accused — and later cleared — of posting a photo of a sex-abuse victim is suing another man he says used a fake Twitter account to set him up, Brooklyn Supreme Court papers say.
The plaintiff, a Hasidic man who legally changed his name to Lemon Juice, claims that Moses Klein created an account using Juice’s likeness and posted a photo of the victim as she testified in the 2012 trial of Nechemya Weberman.
Juice was charged with contempt because the judge prohibited taking pictures of the woman during the trial, but he was later exonerated.
“He was . . . maliciously prosecuted due to the act of an imposter,” Juice’s attorney, Leopold Gross, said.
Klein could not be reached for comment.